General Tips

Sometimes when you connect to hotel wifi, things just don’t click.  For some reason, the login screen won’t come up, and every website gives you a strange warning when you navigate there. There’s one trick my friend in IT told me years ago that can help you get connected to the …

I recently wrote about how Uber is no longer disclosing when surge price is going on.  So you now pay Uber surge pricing without realizing it. The upside is that Uber discloses the entire price of your ride ahead of time.  You won’t be surprised when the ride ends because …

You are driving down the road when suddenly, you see a cop behind you.  You aren’t too worried because you haven’t been speeding. But then the cop car’s lights go on. You immediately start wondering what happened.  Is your tail light out?  Did you stop long enough at that stop sign? …

I had some readers over my house the other day, and one of them commented that she found my recommendation of You Need a Budget to be useful.  She asked if I could write a little more on budgets and finance both in the context of miles and points and …

College was where I discovered cash-back cards and the wonderful world of “getting something for nothing”.  (In quotes on purpose). They literally gave out credit cards more than they gave out candy.  Which resulted in some of my friends having to get jobs, fast, freshman year. Credit cards generally teach you to …

First of all, I want to start off by saying I’m a huge fan of Instacart.  Instacart lets you order groceries and have them delivered almost immediately for a fee of $5-$10 plus tip.  (You can also schedule them ahead). You can select from a variety of grocery stores and …

As I mentioned before, my brand new laptop died a fiery non-eventful death. Turns out it was a few days past the store return policy, so I had to send it to the manufacturer for repair. I reached out on Twitter, but after not hearing anything, I called the company on …